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From the program: Working with Immigrants: The Intersection of Basic Immigration, Housing, and Domestic Violence Issues in California (Free)

Released on: May. 28, 2013

You should view this training if you would like to provide pro bono services to immigrant clients in the areas of housing, immigration, or domestic violence or you would like to improve your representation of immigrant clients generally.  Many immigrant clients require assistance with a constellation of related yet distinct issues.  This program attempts to address these particular areas of overlap.  Experienced practitioners in ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back to the second session of the morning program. And we're about to hear from Ron Sernau and Rob Sorin, relating to successfully negotiating a contract of sale and what are the things one has to do to close a transaction. With us, we have, as I said, Ron Sernau, who's the co-chair of the real estate department of Proskauer Rose. Ron has represented some of the most prominent real estate developers in New York, as well ...

From the program: Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2013

Released on: Jun. 18, 2013

Many things have changed in the world of real estate: the structuring of transactions, availability of financing availability of equity capital, bankruptcy remote structures, the role of the bankruptcy process, joint venture considerations, work out pitfalls, carve-out guaranties and unanticipated judicial interpretations, global market gyrations, interest rate setting irregularities, evolving neighborhoods, mega public/private projects, special servicer ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: Well, I am now happy to introduce Kahlil Yearwood, who is an associate with the finance and real estate practice at Dechert. Mr. Yearwood's practice focuses on commercial real estate finance and capital markets. He represents various CMBS lenders, portfolio lenders, loan servicers, subordinate bond buyers, private equity firms, and debt fund managers in transactions involving the origination and structuring of real-estate-related loans. In ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Institute (14th Annual)

Released on: Nov. 23, 2012

As commercial real estate slowly recovers from the recession, practitioners will need a broad skill set to achieve and maintain a viable real estate practice. This program helps practicing attorneys enhance traditional transactional skills, and develop workout and enforcement skills, so that they can help their clients regain their footing more quickly. Lecture Topics  [Total time 12:51:20] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MIKE MEYER: So thank you for being here, stay here. I need to bring up our two new panelists. And we're in for a great treat. What are you [INAUDIBLE]? OK. They're on their way up? They're making a grand entrance? It's like, let's make a deal. Come on down, it's 10 o'clock, 10:02, it's coming out of their time. But the two people who are walking in and making this grand entrance, we're really lucky to have. One is Alan Robin who, there's no better ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Other lending abuses, as well. So with that, let me see if there is any other housekeeping stuff. Wonderful panel here this morning. I will introduce them all. And then I will tell you a little bit more about your first speaker. So this morning, we have Sally J. Elkington, Cathy Moran, and Lisa Sitkin, two private practitioners in the bankruptcy arena, and Lisa Sitkin, managing attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates. Sally ...

From the program: Consumer Financial Services Institute 2013 (18th Annual)

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Consumer Financial Services Institute 2013 (18th Annual) recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:46:18]Fair Lending & Mortgage Litigation  [01:46:18] Fair Lending- Update on disparate impact under Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and the FHA in the courts and before the CFPB, HUD and the DOJ- Effect of the absence of disparate impact on both government and private litigation- Risks and challenges ...

Recorded on: Aug. 9, 2012

Taken from the briefing Contracts for Green Buildings: Solving the Split Incentive Problem and Contracting Well for Green Performance recorded August, 2012. With the increased popularity of LEED-certified buildings and other green aspects of building, contracting or leasing for green has increased in complexity.  Many commercial leases are structured in a manner that actually discourages energy saving improvements, and we will ...

Recorded on: Aug. 23, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Contracts for Green Buildings, Solving the Split Incentive Problem and Contracting Well for Green Performance. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials ...

Recorded on: Oct. 10, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Maeve Elise and Lisa. MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Great. Welcome back. Thank you. OK in our final segment, we're going to talk a little bit about credit and foreclosure. So let's go ahead and jump in. One of the monstrous and unintended consequences of course of the foreclosure crisis is millions and millions of people whose credit has been pummeled. And what is going to happen to them remains to be seen. I offer the stat about how many homeowners ...

From the program: Tax, Credit and Other Financial Consequences of Foreclosures, Short Sales and Mortgage Loan Principal Forgiveness (Free)

Released on: Oct. 24, 2012

This training will help improve your ability to counsel homeowners in financial distress.  The training will provide an overview of the financial issues - including tax and credit consequences - homeowners may face after a foreclosure, short sale or loan modification.  Tax experts will explain the fundamentals of how cancelled mortgage debt is treated under state and federal tax law, and provide insights into changes ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

LESLIE H. LOFFMAN: It is my great privilege to introduce Stef Tucker, who's a partner at the law firm Venable. He is a dear, dear friend. And you know what, before anything else, he is a good soul, and that's more important than all the other things I'm about to tell you. But he is an amazing lawyer-- focuses on M&A, entity planning and structuring, asset protection and preservation, family business issues, wealth preservation-- he is a generalist ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: So with all of that said, that's a hell of an introduction for 45 minutes. But John, like myself, has served as an expert witness, an arbitrator, served as a judge pro tem, but basically he's a real estate lawyer. And all he does this deals. And he wrote a lease a long time ago that got his name in the Wall Street Journal. It was actually a complimentary article about him. But it was writing about how tough that lease was. And-- why ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back for the second part of the program. We have with us Richard Fries and Jamie Levitt. Richard Fries is the co-chair of the real estate department of Bingham McCutchen. He represents institutional lenders and owners in distress loan workouts and in restructuring of various financing instruments. Some of his recent transactions included representing lenders in the Carlton House renovation project on Madison Avenue and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back to the afternoon session of our program. We are very pleased to have with us Richard Fries and Jim Hough to kick off this segment on Distress Loan Work Outs and Lender Liabilities, which will segue very nice into the conversations we had this morning, with Greg Cross, Representing Special Services. Richard, who's my former partner, is the head of the New York Real Estate Practice at Bingham McCutcheon. And Richard ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Hi everyone. Welcome back from lunch. I'm really looking forward to this next panel on domestic violence and housing. This session is going to focus on how California laws, the Fair Housing Act, and the Violence Against Women Act protect survivors of domestic violence from denial of housing, help them defend and avoid evictions, and aid survivors in maintaining safe and stable housing. These panelists have prepared a very thorough ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Ok we're in the final lap for the day. And thank you for coming back for that final lap. We are turning now to the closing process for loans. The due diligence and loan documentation process. And I've asked Jim Carolan to focus on how loan documents work, where some of the problems are, and how you can mess up a commercial loan transaction. He added the concept of rescuing the commercial loan transaction. But that's OK. Jim heads the ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: The next segment of the program is environmental due diligence and drafting environmental provisions in business and real estate transactions. We have three people who will be speaking. The first is Joyce Schlesinger. Joyce is another member of ENVIRON International. The same top-notch environmental consulting firm that David Thomas was from. And Joyce founded the due diligence practice group at ENVIRON, where she's been a consultant ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

SPEAKER: All right everybody, we're going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for staying with us through the entire program. This is the last segment of the day. It is the one hour on ethics that I'm sure everybody is waiting for. I'm going to go ahead and introduce our speakers. The next panel is Ethical Concerns for Council When Advising a Government Contractor. We have Larry Harris with Fox Rothschild and Timothy Thornton with Greensfelder, Hemker, ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: A person who needs no introduction, so she's going to get no introduction, because we're don't to take up too much of her time. But she has been a practicing attorney for 30 years. All of our lawyers who are on the program are practicing lawyers. It's important that we have, it's called the Practising Law Institute, but to have people who actually do it every day and deal with it. And so Carol has been in private practice and was a ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back for the last segment of the program. At the podium is a Pat Wilson. And she'll be speaking on in real estate transactions. Some of those issues have actually been newsworthy recently. Pat is a professor of law at Baylor Law School. And she's been there since 1993. Pat is actually a-- not actually. Pat is a recognized authority on legal ethics and real estate transactions and responsibilities of the various parties on an ethical ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: OK, we're going to conclude the program today with about an hour on legal ethics. We're pleased to have Pery Krinsky speaking on legal ethics. His practice is devoted exclusively to attorney ethics matters as well as art law ethics, litigation, representing law school students before the committees on character and fitness. And he's chair of the Ethics Committee of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law section of the state bar association. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: All right, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to resume for our final session of the day. And I'm happy to introduce to you Carol Robertson. Carol's been practicing law for over 30 years, including as a partner at a major San Francisco law firm and as corporate counsel with several San Francisco Bay Area companies, including her current position at the Clorox company. Where she supports the global real estate and facilities group and works ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: Welcome back, everybody. We have the piece de resistance for today, which is the ethics panel. Where we have two fabulous professors, retired professors and people very knowledgeable in the world of ethics, who've decided to dip their toes into the world of real estate and talk about the kinds of things that we face as real estate lawyers. So we have with us Bonnie Host, who's a conflicts attorney at SNR Denton and counsels ...